Letters: North County, Jan. 19, 2013

We have lost control of our criminal justice system in cases like this. Due process has been so twisted that it has lost its internal logic. Between the seemingly endless echoes of the 9/11 attacks through the law, and the flimsy gymnastics the government has undertaken to do what it wants to do anyway, the country’s most fundamental principles have become lost.

Why does President Obama continue this injustice?

J. Howard Crews

Fallbrook

More on Escondido rent control

Re: “Escondido public deserves an explanation,” Jan. 11: “To be clear, (Jeff) Epp is a smart lawyer, having successfully defended Escondido’s mobile-home rent-control ordinance before the U.S. Supreme Court.”

But the writer of the editorial forgot to mention that the court reversed and remanded the case, holding that Ordinance 91-19 was pre-empted by state law, California Civil Code 798.17, and that it was, therefore, facially invalid.

Allen Pope

Escondido

No respect

No respect, our government(s) have no respect for us (we the people). They consider us to be as dumb as a box of rocks.

It is, however, with good reason. We elected them, or so we are told.

It is like we are the pickup in the bar and they tell us wonderful things and take us home, do unspeakable things to us, steal our identity and don’t call us in the morning, or ever.

They lied to us, stole our identity and expect us to pay off their $17 trillion gambling debt while they are still “borrowing” and still gambling.

To make it worse, we believe them when they tell us we re-elected them to keep up the good work. Hell, who do you think counts the “votes” and issues the statistics we accept as true and honest?

If you haven’t noticed, they are untouchable, they get all they took and we are left to earn for them.

They are playing poker with a stacked deck, and we are still just glad to be in the game with them.

Hey, “Rocky,” it is government of, by and for the rich. We are not respected.